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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You've got to be the only person I've ever heard with positive things to say about the PDF format.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was just about to say that, tis a cursed format.

[–] oozynozh@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It has its merits. If I want a document's formatting to be consistent upon delivery and accessible to anybody with so much as a web browser, I export to PDF.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I use them all the time, it has its place.....but people tend to overuse them.

Nothing worse than someone sending me data as a fucken PDF file. Hey here is a table with a bunch of data, it is spread over multiple pages, and no you can't get the data as a csv file. Because I want you to spend a lot of time verifying that the data has imported correctly.